The Art of Being Summer Festival 2018

HERE-NOW AND FOREVER!

There is ordinary presence, the state in which normal healthy people usually live daily life. And there is extraordinary presence, when we are so totally in the here and now that we are alive to “all that I am and all that is”. In this state we become the wide-awake celebration of our whole being. We experience the magic and mystery in existence and we relate with other people with warm-hearted openness. Being so totally here-now we find ourselves not only fully connected and in love with life; we are touched by the boundless – the eternal to which we all belong. We discover the wonder of living HERE-NOW AND FOREVER. This is the essence of our 2018 festival.

Come join us on our bon voyage!

Alan Lowen The Patron, Founder and Spiritual Father of the Art of Being Festival

TEACHER - GUIDES

Alan Lowen

Alan Lowen has been creating and leading workshops for 40 years and has established an international reputation as a premier guide for people seeking to accept, integrate and celebrate all aspects of their personal life and being. He studied psychology at London and Oxford universities and then trained in many areas of personal growth, inspired by his first mentor, Dr. Carl Rogers. Later he became a disciple of Osho Rajneesh, and lived in his ashram for 8 years, leading workshops and exploring the deepest realms of human potential. In 1986 he returned to public life and founded The Art of Being® as a path of self-realization, heart awareness, life fulfilment and spiritual awakening.

He chooses to engage with the essential personal themes of our lives – with our nature, our stories and relationships, with sex and love, with the influences on us of our birth and childhood, and with the universal experience of death and dying. Above all he invites us to honour and celebrate our own unique art of being. In 2003 he received the Kindred Spirit magazine award for his work in the field of personal transformation.

The Art of Being® is a remarkably human path of personal and spiritual growth. Touching, passionate, humorous, and celebrative, it is potent in its power to transform and awaken! It calls you into the present and teaches you how to keep being here when old habits would shut you down or impair your wholeness and your intimate connection with life happening here and now.

My name is Niraj, Biodanza teacher, humorist presenter, and lover of life. I look forward to entertaining you in the morning meetings and making the boring interesting by transforming mundane practical announcements that need to be made at all festivals into an enjoyable and amusing experience, so that you can enjoy every minute of this beautiful event.

Guy has been facilitating Biodanza for the last 15 years in UK, Holland, North & Southern Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Portugal and Czech Republic. Guy brings his Love of Life and passion for the Dance in an accessible way so all may be enriched by the experience of discovering a deeper sense of ‘Home’ within themselves.

Guy shares his wisdom and guydance gleaned from many years of experience with 1000’s of people from all over the Globe. He has explored in the fields of dance, healing, meditation, tai chi, Shamanism, Tantra, conscious parenting, conscious sexuality, mediation, conflict resolution and peace building, empowering holistic education, creative expression and Heartfelt indepth Soul~Full intimate connectivity…

Tina Malia is a musical visionary in the world, dream pop and sacred chant communities. The omni-talented Malia uses her artistic gifts as singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer to express her radiant inner landscape with an exceptionally broad creative palette. Her voice, an instrument of exceptional purity, can be as tender as an angel’s sigh or as powerful as a deep ocean current. At The Art of Being Summer Festival the singer-songwriter/ producer/ instrumentalist will play music designed to wrap her audience in the sublime beauty of the heart and enliven the spirit.

Andrew Barnes is an internationally acclaimed Tantric sex, relationship, and orgasm coach, sexologist, speaker, master bodyworker, and author of Heart of the Flower and Relationship Tantra. Andrew is the developer of Tantric Body De-armouring, and over the last several years he has been running courses worldwide in this ever-popular modality.

Andrew’s worldview encourages us beyond the usual ways of enhancing our life experience and understanding the concepts of Tantric sex. He draws from his wide-ranging experiences including Tantra and Health Science, bringing a distinctive presence, clarity, and approach to a broad array of topics. In addition to more conceptual themes, he addresses daily issues: sexuality, relationships, love, communication, behavioural patterns, vocation, health and abundance. He shares his insights with warmth, sensitivity, and humour. Andrew also supports people to become more aware of the unconscious psychology of relationships and sexuality and how this effects our ability to love without fear. How this changes the vibrational frequency of the body, and how we can use our sexual energy as a spiritual platform for raising consciousness and creating abundance…

Andrew is a leading authority on women’s sexuality, respected among his peers for his expertise and craft based on extensive studies and experience in Tantric practices, bodywork and sexuality philosophy. He is helping to shape a movement that is growing in relevance and acceptance with his enlightening teachings on spiritual growth, conscious relating and sexuality.

Thanks to a number of stimuli Martin decided to share his experience he gained in the field of Tantra. He started pursuing the path of Tantra in 2004. He trained with John Hawken, Alan Lowen and in 2016 he successfully completed Tantra Teachers Training – training for Tantra lecturers, led by Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita who is a long-time follower of the tantric master OSHO. Since 2016 he has been regularly lecturing about Tantra and conducting weekend tantric seminars. He completed several annual tantric trainings as a participant or an assistant. In 2015 Martin took Sannyas – the path of spreading Tantra and OSHO teaching, accepting Sannyas name Swami Dev Ninad. Martin also works as a photographer and a film maker. He works with internationally renowned tantric teachers on projects that promote Tantra. At the beginning of 2018 he will be releasing a document about the work of Alan Lowen.

Lucia Pajszerová

Lucia is currently completing Tantra Teachers Training led by Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita who is a long-time follower of the tantric master OSHO. She graduated in Therapeutical Pedagogy. At the moment she is finishing training of Process Oriented Psychotherapy (Process Work). Together with Martin they have undergone Tantra training for couples, aimed at deepening of relationship and exploring the depth of sexual connection between partners. The world of tantric workshops is part of their everyday lives. They would like to bring these experiences to people interested in Tantra. At the same time, the study of Process Work and Tantra is interwoven and the possibilities of self-developing are given new dimensions.

Milli Janatková´s creative work takes in vocal, guitar, percussion, visual arts, and workshops leading. She has been performing since 2006 and improvising since 2008. Her experimental approach uses her whole body — breath, voice, movement and rhythms — to make music that combines elements of jazz, Latin American, folk and World music, as well as crossover and electronics. Her music has been honored with the nominations for The Independent Music Awards, USA, Tais Awards and Czech Anděl Awards. The goal of her multimedia projects Transformation, Quiet, please! and To My Roots is the inspiration to renew people´s trust, hope, respect, and support the maturation process we all experience. Milli has been working on her spiritual growth for 15 years through dance, Zhong Yuan Qigong exercise, deep Biosythesis Therapy, dreams and family research.

„Meditation is the essence of my creativity. The journey to my roots brings me acceptance and transformation. I like to be interested in my family to create a link, or a continuation of my family’s legacy.“

Maok is a musician and an improviser, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, but also a man for whom the most striking element of self-expression is music. His unique dreamy and mystic style is easy to recognize even without having to know the specific song. Maok is a popular and regular guest of meditation events organized by well-known spiritual leaders in Czech and Slovak Republic. He himself says of his music: “Music is for me an expression of freedom and love. Through expressing wonderment emanating out of a creative moment, there is beauty that can seize and introduce us to the colourful and constantly changing world of our soul, or it can stop any movement within us and we can melt in a single point, in the fullness of emptiness, which is the pupil of our eye at the same time. Or it can take us into the pulsating ecstasy of our flaming heart, or it can take us on a journey of dance and movement, where we will become one with our body and its inner rhythms. Or we can just have a pleasurable nap.

I have been a part of the teacher-musician team since the beginning of the AOB festivals. I feel very humbled and honoured to be invited again. I enjoyed and learned so much from any of the festivals. I feel inspired simply by remembering the experience I had each time. I reflected o lot of them in my recent work. My credo for my music and my inspiration for work with people has always been to create a spirit and space enabling us to go back to our essence, which means basically to return to “Here & Now”. Only if we are Here & Now we are able to feel who we are, experience our oneness with All and everything and re-connect to our true self. To me, Live Music, especially the vibration of drums has the unique power to transport us straight to Here & Now. I feel that my purpose in this lifetime is to share this quality with as many people as possible, and I am here to serve…

Shakya is a multi instrumentalist with a focus on violoncello and at home on all musical levels. He began his journey at the age of six with the classical violoncello training, some years later also the piano training. His path took him to many other genres, from jazz and pop/rock, latin and ethno to new age and ambient. He self-taught playing instruments such as dilruba, guitar, djembé or hang and later added those to his repertoire. He loves to improvise live for dancing or meditating people. He is a member of various bands and a music producer, also featuring and appearing on many CDs.

Music has become my life-long journey, which I have been following not only as a violinist, but also as a musicologist, conductor, teacher, composer and organizer of music events. When challenging times came into my life and prevented me from performing music, I started to find remedy in meditation and looking for deeper qualities of life. This brought me new knowledge which affected not only my view of the music world and my opinion about a musician development but mainly my own life. This gained experience is reflected in Musical games, application Neutee and also in my own music CDs. As a guide through musician´s soul I share my knowledge at music schools, courses and festivals. I lecture about stage fright, improvisation, correct music practice and also about how to face the vocation of a musician nowadays.

Ivo has been following up personal development for more than 20 years. He went through a variety of methods and directions – Reiki, holotropic breathing, aromatherapy, massage, astrology, tarot, music therapy, coaching, deep abreactiv psychotherapy, shamanism, tantra. Especially the last four methods have gradually led him to his own work with clients. And it’s really simple – breath, voice, movement and sound are all that we need to move into all areas of our being.

Ivo has been engaged in firewalking (open as well as company seminars) since 1995. Especially shamanic firewalking, where he can combine shamanistic and tantric elements, is truly a matter of the heart for Ivo. It is his honour and pleasure to guide you through Fire Meditation and Firewalking during The Art of Being Summer Festival 2017.

Creators of accompanying programme

Janek Šlonc

Came in touch with Family Constellations from 2011. Since then he worked with healing, massages, conscious touch, tools of Tantric, Shamanistic healing circle and Soul movements . In 2014 he finished a one and half year training with Peter Málek and Magdaléna Šloncová -A Guide along the Path -. A year later was an assistant on the same training.

Leading of seminars, include all these techniques, togather with Martina Rosemary since 2015.

Janek started his journey In the Shibari / Kinbaku since 2013. Workshops with: Ricardo Wildtie and Red Sabath, Peter Slemrian and Carina, Barkas and Eddie (like these guys a lot :), Yoroi Nicolas, Lady Butterfly, Into These Bonds and others. Shadow as teacher of rope production.

From 2014 he is leading his own workshops with Kinbaku in Czech, Walles, Nederland, Austria and Germany. Within this work he is focused on creating a safe space for exploration and a deep contact between the partners with an open heart.

In BDSM friends and techers London Fearie and Marti Šimková. Was also an assistant on their workshop in Prague. Energy work and Tantra also with Andrew Barnes.

So my work with ropes is not focused on pain or sufering, but more about simple Kinbaku techniques combined with deep contact with partner, trust, surrender, playfulness, pleasure, be in contact with our selves, our vulnerability and power.

Three years ago started own production of hand made jute ropes traditionaly used for kinbaku, possible buy his ropes and Stick of Joy on Art of Being festival.

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This is the place for another wonderful teacher or musician, who will be your guide on the journey of discovery of the miracle of being HERE-NOW AND FOREVER!

HERE-NOW AND FOREVER is the essence of our 2018 festival.

Mirka Papajiková

Lecturer, dancer, photographer and consultant for personal and movement development. She educates herself in the area of psychology, personal development, psychotherapy and psychomotorics. She is fascinated by the connection between body and mind. This fascination feeds her desire for finding creative ways for personal development through the body.

Since 2011 she has been developing her private dance, consulting and photographic practice via the creative project ROZVOJ TANCEM (Development through the dance). Dance is her way how to discover herself. Thanks to understanding of her inner world, she is able to better understand the world around us. She tries to develop this dance approach also with her clients. Since February 2012 she has been teaching dance improvisation and leading self-experience seminars. She offers personal development consultancy. Since 2013 she has been providing training of soft skills and pursuing production and managerial activities in the artistic area (dance theatre and art school). Since 2015 she has been co-leading and organising self-experience seminars within the Experience dating agency Titali. It is a project that focuses on self-experience, interpersonal relationships and creating meaningful and genuine interactions and ties between people. Since 2016 she has been devoting herself to the project Experience English, which through movement and sensory perception helps participants to start speaking English naturally.

This is the place for another wonderful teacher or musician, who will be your guide on the journey of discovery of the miracle of being HERE-NOW AND FOREVER!

HERE-NOW AND FOREVER is the essence of our 2018 festival.

Michaela Sklářová

I love life in all its shapes and forms and my credo is: „Never give up and embrace everything that comes into your life! “

I love passion, living to the full potential and having energy.

But what to do if suddenly the energy isn’t there or if unexpectedly it disappears? Without it, it is hard work…

Thus more than 20 years ago as a result of bad health followed by the loss of energy I discovered “miraculous medicine” called Chi Kung. I intensively began exploring the secret of old Taoist who knew how to be happy, how to cultivate their health, body and mind and how to get a new flush of sexual energy to rejuvenate cells and stay healthy.

Thanks to this journey I have established a school called The Live Chi Kung, a school of natural healing and the School of Tao Woman, a school especially for women and girls. Since 2003 I have inspired in my schools thousands of women and men who longed to change themselves and their lives.

And because Tao and Tantra have lots in common, I would also like to show Chi Kung to you at the Art of Being festival and try to inspire you…

Programme

There is ordinary presence, the state in which normal healthy people usually live daily life. And there is extraordinary presence, when we are so totally in the here and now that we are alive to “all that I am and all that is”. In this state we become the wide-awake celebration of our whole being. We experience the magic and mystery in existence and we relate with other people with warm-hearted openness. Being so totally here-now we find ourselves not only fully connected and in love with life; we are touched by the boundless – the eternal to which we all belong. We discover the wonder of living HERE-NOW AND FOREVER. This is the essence of our 2018 festival. Come join us on our bon voyage!

Alan LowenThe Patron, Founder and Spiritual Father of the Art of Being Festival

The programme begins on Wednesday 4th July 2017 with an afternoon meditation at 4 p.m. However, you can arrive and check in as from 2 p.m. Dinner will be served between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Alan Lowen and his friends will inaugurate the festival at 8 p.m.

During the next three days we will always begin the day with a morning meditation at 7:30 a.m. Every day will have three main programme blocks – morning, afternoon and evening one. After lunch, during the afternoon siesta, you will have plenty of time to stroll in the forest, swim in the lake or pool, sunbathe or buy some great products in the stalls. We are also preparing an extensive accompanying programme for the afternoon siesta. You will be able to stretch during acro yoga, choose from several types of massages, attend workshops or listen to interesting lectures. For the evenings we have prepared live music concerts, Trance Dance, Firewalking, campfire and much more. Main programme will take place in a giant outdoor tent; therefore your experience will be enhanced by direct contact with surrounding nature.

“The programme is subject to change.”

Here-now and forever!

There is ordinary presence, the state in which normal healthy people usually live daily life. And there is extraordinary presence, when we are so totally in the here and now that we are alive to “all that I am and all that is”. In this state we become the wide-awake celebration of our whole being. We experience the magic and mystery in existence and we relate with other people with warm-hearted openness. Being so totally here-now we find ourselves not only fully connected and in love with life; we are touched by the boundless – the eternal to which we all belong. We discover the wonder of living HERE-NOW AND FOREVER. This is the essence of our 2018 festival. Come join us on our bon voyage!

Here-now and forever!

There is ordinary presence, the state in which normal healthy people usually live daily life. And there is extraordinary presence, when we are so totally in the here and now that we are alive to “all that I am and all that is”. In this state we become the wide-awake celebration of our whole being. We experience the magic and mystery in existence and we relate with other people with warm-hearted openness. Being so totally here-now we find ourselves not only fully connected and in love with life; we are touched by the boundless – the eternal to which we all belong. We discover the wonder of living HERE-NOW AND FOREVER. This is the essence of our 2018 festival. Come join us on our bon voyage!

Here-now and forever!

There is ordinary presence, the state in which normal healthy people usually live daily life. And there is extraordinary presence, when we are so totally in the here and now that we are alive to “all that I am and all that is”. In this state we become the wide-awake celebration of our whole being. We experience the magic and mystery in existence and we relate with other people with warm-hearted openness. Being so totally here-now we find ourselves not only fully connected and in love with life; we are touched by the boundless – the eternal to which we all belong. We discover the wonder of living HERE-NOW AND FOREVER. This is the essence of our 2018 festival. Come join us on our bon voyage!

Here-now and forever!

There is ordinary presence, the state in which normal healthy people usually live daily life. And there is extraordinary presence, when we are so totally in the here and now that we are alive to “all that I am and all that is”. In this state we become the wide-awake celebration of our whole being. We experience the magic and mystery in existence and we relate with other people with warm-hearted openness. Being so totally here-now we find ourselves not only fully connected and in love with life; we are touched by the boundless – the eternal to which we all belong. We discover the wonder of living HERE-NOW AND FOREVER. This is the essence of our 2018 festival. Come join us on our bon voyage!

Here-now and forever!

There is ordinary presence, the state in which normal healthy people usually live daily life. And there is extraordinary presence, when we are so totally in the here and now that we are alive to “all that I am and all that is”. In this state we become the wide-awake celebration of our whole being. We experience the magic and mystery in existence and we relate with other people with warm-hearted openness. Being so totally here-now we find ourselves not only fully connected and in love with life; we are touched by the boundless – the eternal to which we all belong. We discover the wonder of living HERE-NOW AND FOREVER. This is the essence of our 2018 festival. Come join us on our bon voyage!

Accompanying program

Accommodations

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Our team

People who are preparing the Festival for you:

Irena Vejmelková

Irena, what is your role at the festival?
I communicate and enter into agreements with teachers, musicians, some members of the team, I am responsible for finance and budget updates. I write texts, I translate them into English, I provide most of the input for the Web, I participate in the creation of the program. We are a team with Peter, so we do many things together – we consult almost everything that relates to the festival, we go to meetings together, we select the accompanying program, we monitor fulfillment of individual tasks. It is a matter of heart for both of us to make The Art of Being Summer Festival an unforgettable great event for all participants, an event everyone will fondly remember and people will be happy to come again.

Why have you offered your talent to organize The Art of Being Summer Festival?A few years ago I went to Universal Experience, and there I met Alan and experienced the wonderful work he does, the experiences he offers to us. When the opportunity came to organize a festival for Alan, I did not hesitate for a minute. In addition, organization, communication and team work is my hobby.

What do you like about Tantra?View of the world, which teach us. Living in the present moment, the art set your boundaries and respecting the boundaries of others. If only the world was more tantrik!

Petr Žurek

Peter, what is your role at the festival?
Anything I can touch on the technical side is my job. Technical preparation of the event, sound systems, printing of brochures, posters, banners, ordering marketing items, communication with the accounting agency, negotiation and supervision of construction of the marquee, acquiring new contacts, teleconferencing, ensuring propper evidence of documents … I’m glad that we joined forces with Irena, we can rely on each other and it is a great benefit for the festival.

Why have you offered your talent to organize The Art of Being Summer Festival?
I fell in love with the principles of Tantra, with teachings of Alan Lowen and other great teachers. To offer the possibility to get acquainted with Alan and Tantra in the form festival seemed to me more effective than small workshops. To convey the unforgettable experiences to dozens of enthusiastic, happy and satisfied participants is another good reason.

What attracts you to Tantra?
One of the ideas of Tantra is that nothing is wrong. And if I do not want to do something, I do not have to do it. This gives me a feeling of freedom …

Miluška Wiebkin

A few years ago, as a result of many gentle and sometimes a bit harsher pushes my life was given a completely different direction. Besides everything else I started working as a private English tutor. I teach mostly children and this work gives me great joy. The opportunity of helping to create this festival is a dream to come true for me and just another piece of my life‘s puzzle fitting its place. It is an honour to be a part of such a wonderful event. I will do my utmost to be Irenka’s best right-hand woman while translating and gently retouching texts for the website and FB.

I take care ofthetranslationandcorrectionoftexts.

Mirka Papajiková

The purpose of my life is dancing and creativity. These two principles lead me to continuous self-development. I feel that thanks to them I can fully explore and understand my inside world and thus also the world outside. The strong connection between body and mind fascinates me a lot, and I believe that this is the key to our essence.

I am involved in various projects and my biggest aim in all of these projects is to support my/our clients (and myself) in the continuing development of consciousness in the body.

I am happy that I can support the team of Art of the being festival. I guess it will be another big step on my diverse way of self-discovery for me.

She takes care oftheregistrationand accommodation.

Markéta Ferstová

With great gratitude, already for the third time I have an amazing opportunity to help with the preparation of the Art of Being festival. It is a great pleasure and great opportunity for me to meet amazing people and navigate them in the program, support their journey and enjoy a fabulous program full of dance, self-development and the art of being. I look forward meeting you during registration and by the central info board.

Alda Plachý

From Life Celebrations and the Body, Heart & Soul Training, which is a part of the Art of Being training, my path brought me to co-organizing mostly dance events with Guy Barrington, and consequently to this festival.
All these events, together with the training help me discover my true essence and they teach me to share it with others. From a shy and hurt outsider I used to be, I have gradually developed my capacity for feeling love, listening to my intuition and truth. This has created the possibility to share my gifts with the rest of the world.
I enjoy being in a community such as the Art of Being and sharing the joy, love, being, but also sadness and pain with others. The festival Art of Being is a celebration of TRUTHFULNESS for me.
In my professional life I currently give holistic massages and provide craniosacral therapy.
Preparing spaces is a great joy for me, so I will be doing that also at this event, along with many other things.